Wrong – (l. 7 ) “so soon as I struck a match in order to see them, they fled incontinently”

Right – (l. 10) “the thought of flight before exploration was even then in my mind”

Wrong – (l. 19 – 20) “The Morlocks at any rate were carnivorous.”

Right – ( l.26 ) “how particularly ill-equipped I was for such an experience”

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The atmosphere is heavy and oppressive as exemplified by the adjectives ‘ impenetrable’ , ‘stuffy’ and ‘dim’, also the smell of blood urges the reader to fear for the narrator’s safety. Yet, the narrator isn’t scared but just ill-equipped and doesn’t really know where he is. The description matches the reader’s curiosity as many verbs of perception as used, especially verbs related to sight .

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Suspense is created thanks to the matches that burn and allow only for a partial viion of the underworld. We are left waiting for the next match, knowing in the end, there’s only 4 left which proves an excellent way to make each description matter.

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The reference to ‘Kodak’ relates to the narrator’s time, it plays with the time lapse and has a funny yet incongruous dimension. The scene takes place in a cave yet we know it’s in the future and the narrator evokes a camera just like a tourist would use to capture the moment.

The absence of camera and the use of matches point at the value of written descriptions. That’s how the writer shows the power of writing and hints at the process of memory. Instead of writing about the past, he writes about a past impression of the future. The narrator tells about a past event but we know he went to the future. It’s as if the narrator was sending us a postcard from the future!

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The social hierarchy seems to be divided between the ‘upper-class’ of the ‘over world’ and the ‘working class’ of the ‘ under world’. Moreover, the fact that the Eloi people are vegetarian and seem stupid while the Morlocks are carnivorous predators to the point that the narrator wonders ‘ what large animal could have survived to furnish the red meat I saw’ could suggest that the Morlocks use the Eloi as cattle or food supply. So for the writer in the future the working class feeds on the aristocracy which has become too dumb to react.

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